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Monday, 6 May 2013

Special Award for services to the EACPT for Michael Orme

The
EACPT presented a Special Award for services to the EACPT for
Professor Michael Orme.

The Award was accepted on his behalf at the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva by EACPT co-founder Professor Folke Sjöqvist.

Michael
Orme qualified in medicine from Cambridge University and King’s College
Hospital in London in 1965. He trained in internal medicine and
clinical pharmacology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London and at
the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was appointed as senior
lecturer in clinical pharmacology at Liverpool University Medical School in
1975 and was promoted to a personal chair in 1984. He was Dean of the Faculty
of Medicine in Liverpool from 1991- 1996.

He worked with European
clinical pharmacology colleagues in the late nineteen eighties to develop a
European approach through the WHO European office in Copenhagen. This led to a
meeting in Verona, Italy in 1993 to found the European Association for Clinical
Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT). Michael was the first honorary secretary
of EACPT from 1995-1999 and he was re-elected to this post for 1999-2003. He
was also chairman of the Education Sub-committee of EACPT from 1997 to
2003. He was elected chairman of EACPT for the period 2003-2007 and
remained on the Executive Committee of EACPT as past chairman until 2011.

In these roles Michael Orme brought his interests in European and global
efforts of clinical pharmacology as a medical speciality devoted to the
rational use of drugs, to growing EACPT into a major international organisation
representing all clinical pharmacology societies in Europe.

The
Special Award was presented at the 11th EACPT Congress in
Geneva 28th - 31st August 2013.

The EACPT was founded 20 years ago and
now includes all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe. The
EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000
individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global
audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can
contribute to human health and wealth.

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About the EACPT

The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) is a learned society in the field of clinical pharmacology. It is the leading society in Europe serving the European and global clinical pharmacology and therapeutics community. The EACPT includes all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe and provides educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses - the next in Prague in 2017 - attended by a global audience. The EACPT also holds Focus Meetings and organises other scientific and professional activities.